... serum levels of neurokinin A and CARS in autistic patients, P < 0.001 This may indicate that the extent of the elevation of serum neurokinin A was closely linked to the degree of the severity of ... with the increased serum levels of neurokinin A in autism A more detailed understanding of the interactions between tachykinins and immune cells may provide the basis for the development of new therapies ... were the 95th percentiles of serum neurokinin A and anti-ribosomal P levels, respectively of healthy controls as the distribution of the data was non-parametric Results Serum Neurokin A levels...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20
... the CDCl3 as the solvent All the data was processed by the software to get a clear identification of the compound Thermal gravity analysis (TGA) was then conducted to compare the difference of ... pieces Fig 3.2 The macro-surface structure of the Sb-carbon composite The micro-structure of the film’s surface is further explored with the TEM The side view and top view of the film are shown ... THE SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATION OF ENERGY STORAGE MATERIALS DERIVED FROM SMALL MOLECULES ZOU SHIQIANG (M.Sc, Peking University) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE...
Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 10:13
Báo cáo y học: " Laugh Yourself into a Healthier Person: A Cross Cultural Analysis of the Effects of Varying Levels of Laughter on Health"
... both extremes of the emotional spectrum were shown At the end of the videos, the brachial artery constricted for five minutes and was then released In fourteen of the twenty volunteers the artery ... expression (27) Therefore, the crux of individualism is the ethnic diversity of various individuals It is not the particular view of the individual that makes them an individualist, but it is the differing ... conditions, and then to specify the name of that condition If the participant failed to indicate the name of the condition regardless of a “yes”, the survey was discarded assuming the participant...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:57
Photovoltaic Cells: Energy Source of the Future.
... and most of the poor countries of the world are in the tropics, where there is plenty of sunlight The photovoltaic cell has another very important advantage It is a clean source of energy The fossil ... materials to allow them to import the fuel that they need to produce energy At the same time, petroleum supplies are limited, and in a few decades, they will run out However, the supply of sunlight ... the cost of a units of solar energy to fall even more Today, there are large factories using solar- cell systems in a number of countries About 18% of the sunlight that reaches the photovoltaic...
Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 01:15
Tài liệu ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY ASSESSMENT OF THE TURIN-LYON HIGH-SPEED RAIL pdf
... go from one end of the country to the other, taking real advantage of the high speed (they tend to use the air services instead) A study commissioned by the Mountain Community of the Susa Valley ... analysis One of the main ecological justifications of the HSR projects would be the energy savings and the expected decrease of pollutant emissions, associated to the shift of a fraction of freight ... unrealistic It seems therefore very hard to support the claim that the construction of the HSR Turin-Lyon would be consistent with the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol, the EU Climate and Energy strategy...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20
Review of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Heavy Vehicle Technologies Program ppt
... Renewable Energy oversees the Office of Transportation Technologies, which includes the Office of Heavy Vehicle Technologies (OHVT), the Office of Advanced Automotive Technologies (OAAT), the Office of ... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the ... systems SUMMARY OF OHVT’S ACTIVITIES AND BUDGET The DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy oversees the Office of Transportation Technologies, which includes OHVT, the Office of Advanced...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20
Báo cáo " On equations of motion, boundary conditions and conserved energy-momentum of the rigid string " doc
... boundary of the rectangle Ω The advantage of the form of the variation δS is that it involves the least possible number of derivatives of the variations δxµ The remaining derivatives of δx in formula ... encounter a coincidence of the following two mathematical obstacles: the presence of the high derivatives in the Lagrangian , and the fact that the field xµ (τ, σ) is defined on the finite strip σ ... N.S Han / VNU Journal of Science, Mathematics - Physics 24 (2008) 111-118 118 Conclusion The equations of motion, of the boundary conditions and of the energy - momentum for the classical rigid...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Cellular refractoriness to the heat-stable enterotoxin peptide is associated with alterations in levels of the differentially glycosylated forms of guanylyl cyclase C pdf
... thought they were able to bind the ST peptide (Fig 2) Therefore, there appeared to be a correlation between the presence of the 145 kDa form of GC-C, which represents the mature glycosylated form of ... amount of 130 kDa protein was localized on the surface of The studies described in this report suggest that regulation of the glycosylation of GC-C can act as a means of controlling the ability of ... protein synthesis was not required, and a pool of ER-associated GC-C is available to replenish the ligand-activable form of the receptor, lost from the cell surface on ST addition The levels of cGMP...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20
Improving the Energy Performance of Buildings ppt
... of charge or at a large discount These firms earned a profit based on the margin between the market price of the NGACs and the cost of the appliances The business model of purchasing small, energy ... benchmark their buildings against other buildings of similar type and size ENERGY STAR gives buildings scores of from to 100 and awards an ENERGY STAR plaque to the top 25 percent of them ENERGY ... case of the promised Australian national program and the proposed recast of the EPBD, even still under consideration Thus, systematic analysis of the effects of the policies is not yet possible There...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20
ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY ASSESSMENT OF THE TURIN-LYON HIGH-SPEED RAIL potx
... go from one end of the country to the other, taking real advantage of the high speed (they tend to use the air services instead) A study commissioned by the Mountain Community of the Susa Valley ... analysis One of the main ecological justifications of the HSR projects would be the energy savings and the expected decrease of pollutant emissions, associated to the shift of a fraction of freight ... unrealistic It seems therefore very hard to support the claim that the construction of the HSR Turin-Lyon would be consistent with the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol, the EU Climate and Energy strategy...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Rapamycin inhibits lipopolysaccharide induction of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor and inducible nitric oxide synthase expression in macrophages by reducing the levels of octamer-binding factor-2 doc
... might also reduce the expression of these genes We therefore tested the effect of rapamycin on the LPS-induced expression of iNOS and G-CSF Fig 3A shows that detectable levels of iNOS and G-CSF ... Mutation of the octamer in the iNOS and G-CSF promoters results in a reduction of more than 90% in the LPS-induced promoter activities of these genes [13,30], suggesting the essential role of the ... plasmid, then, after 24 h, were incubated for h (D) or 24 h (E) in the presence or absence of LPS; the levels of iNOS and b-actin were analyzed by western blotting (D) and the NO levels in the medium...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Amyloid structure – one but not the same: the many levels of fibrillar polymorphism potx
... the way to the beginning of the experiment [23] (Fig 2C), which means that the observed lag time depends inversely on the growth rate of fibrils, as well as the nucleation rate A compilation of ... nucleation events will lessen the effect of later nucleation events The linear nature of fibrils implies that they grow linearly by the addition of protein molecules to their ends [52] Exponential ... fibrils The key to the properties of amyloid assemblies lies in the regularity and repetitiveness of their underlying molecular architecture of intermolecular b-strands stacked perpendicular to the...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo khoa học:The isolation and characterization of temperature-dependent ricin A chain molecules in Saccharomyces cerevisiae docx
... diagram of wild-type RTA structure, and the positions of the altered amino acids of the double mutant, F108 and L151, within the structure are indicated Discussion RTA is the catalytic polypeptide of ... that of recombinant wild-type RTA with a root mean square deviation (RMSD) from the Ca atoms of the wild-type crystal structure [22] of ˚ 0.33 A The electron density in the area local to the substitution ... protein transcription within the first 20 However, the normal rate of ribosome synthesis is resumed within the hour [24,25] We therefore postulate that the reduced ability of yeast to grow whilst remaining...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 07:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Proteolytic degradation of nitric oxide synthase isoforms by calpain is modulated by the expression levels of HSP90 potx
... of HSP90 and incubated in the presence of the indicated amounts of human erythrocyte calpain in the conditions reported in the Experimental procedures At the end of the incubation, aliquots of ... Experimental procedures The areas of the peaks were normalized on the basis of the amount of protein loaded on the column The values reported are the arithmetical mean ± SD of three different experiments ... only the protective effect exerted by HSP90 on the digestion of NOS isozymes, but also the requirement of high levels of active calpain for the chaperone proteolysis The inhibitory effect of HSP90...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 07:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Analysis of the contribution of changes in mRNA stability to the changes in steady-state levels of cyclin mRNA in the mammalian cell cycle doc
... raises the question of how their levels decrease at the end of M-phase We have to assume a prolonged period of transcription inhibition to explain the decay of an mRNA that fluctuates 10-fold in the ... by half-life changes It is possible that the majority of the regulation of these transcripts may reside in the choice of polyadenylation site The lack of changes in mRNA stability for mRNAs, which ... 2-fold to the short versions of cyclin A2 and B1 mRNA, whereas minor fluctuations of mRNA levels in the other genes are possibly transcriptionally controlled The cyclic accumulation of the longer...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo khoa học: A functional polymorphism at the transcriptional initiation site in b2-glycoprotein I (apolipoprotein H) associated with reduced gene expression and lower plasma levels of b2-glycoprotein I docx
... Table The distribution of all polymorphisms was in the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium The frequency of the )1A allele was 0.0625 with a carrier frequency of 12.1% The carrier frequencies of the Gly306 ... mutation Impact of the )1CfiA mutation on the occurrence of anti-phospholipid antibodies (APA) Previously we have reported the association of the Trp316Ser polymorphism with the occurrence of APA (anticardiolipin ... of the -1CÔA mutation on reporter (Luc) gene expression The effect of )1C (wild type) and )1A (mutant type) alleles was measured as the mean of the firefly Luc levels, which were adjusted with the...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20
structural levels of the iliad
... show the numerous consequences and influences that the structural levels of the Trojan war had on each other and the outcome of the Trojan war The universal war of the gods over the apple of discord ... the social war to the extent that it effected the resolution of the universal war of the gods The private war of Achilles motivated the gods to fight and to resolve the universal war All of these ... wounded by the ransack of Briseis The social war then influenced the outcome of the private war of Achilles Events that occurred in the social war created and influence the private war of Achilles...
Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 17:58
mirlin. statistics of energy levels and eigenfunctions in disordered systems
... is the lowest eigenvalue of the di!uson operator !D Q " with the proper boundary conditions The time t has the meaning of the time of di!usion through " the sample, and t\ is the Thouless energy ... Section of the present article Not only the energy levels statistics but also the statistical properties of wave functions are of considerable interest In the case of nuclear spectra, they determine ... far from each other in real space) As a result, the levels form an ideal 1D gas (on the energy axis) obeying the Poisson statistics In particular, the variance of the number N of levels in an interval...
Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 17:14
the effect of vibrational excitation of molecules involving methane & nitrogen
... no noticeable effect on the rate of decomposition Thus the results of the numerical modeling supported the validity of the estimations which were made on the basis of the simplified consideration ... Hence the process of HCN synthesis was induced which was limited by the value of kN The values of kHCN and kN affected only the concentration of NH, but have no noticeable effect on the rate of ... mixture of CH4 and N2 The effect of relative nitrogen concentration (β N G[N2]0͞[N2]0C[CH4]0, here [N2]0 is the initial concentration of the nitrogen molecules and [CH4]0 is the initial one of the...
Ngày tải lên: 09/05/2014, 17:02
evolution and the levels of selection jan 2007
... leave the same number of offspring as each other, and the offspring deviate from their parents in exactly the way they in the actual world So the total change would equal the simple average of the ... in the Abstract’, the logic of evolution by natural selection is spelled out, and the origin of the levels- of- selection problem explained I emphasize the abstract nature of the principle of natural ... property of the ith entity; z is then the variance of the character, and z the change in the variance, so Price’s equation applies as usual If z is suitably defined, the evolution of higher moments of...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 05:34